Software

We have been working closely with Jisc on a number of activities this year. ORCID Following funding from Jisc, the ‘ORCID Support Advance’ Bazaar plugin is under development*. With the original ‘ORCID Support’ providing repositories with the basic infrastructure for storing and displaying ORCIDs, the ‘Advance’ version builds on this. It allows users to connect their ORCIDs and import works from orcid.org, as well as update their user and activity information in their orcid.org profile. The ‘ORCID Support Advance’ plugin represents the continuing efforts to pull development efforts together from a range of repositories across the community. We’d like to take this opportunity to thankRead More →

As a result of changes at CrossRef, specifically to their DOI resolver service, we have recently identified that the popular Import from DOI option in EPrints has stopped working. This morning our team has updated this import plugin and we have released a fix for everyone in the community to download and apply. Further details can be found on the EPrints Github site https://github.com/eprints/eprints/issues/439 Our EPrints Services team are already in the process of rolling out this fix to our supported customer network.Read More →

We have been busy working on a selection of projects and feature improvements for our EPrints Services customers. These include Faceted Search. A new and improved IRStats2. And introducing EPrintsFlo. Follow the above links for more details.Read More →

As an eventful 2016 draws to a close, we at EPrints HQ would like to wish the entire EPrints community a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This has been another busy year for our EPrints Services team with lots of activity around repositories for Impact, Research data, Education and of course Publications. The following are just a few of the activity areas we have been working on: REF Compliance Checker plugin Developed and released by Jisc in January of this year, this plugin for EPrints provides a straightforward means by which you can check whether an article or conference proceeding in your EPrints repository isRead More →

As part of Open Access Week 2016, here at EPrints HQ we are pleased to be able to share the following updates about our work to continue supporting the open access, open education and open data communities. Come back for further updates as the week progresses. *NEW* EPrints 3.4 Impact flavour coming soon We are pleased to announce that through a project with the University of Glasgow, we are currently in the process of creating a new flavour compatible with EPrints 3.4 to create a repository optimised for capturing Impact data. This solution will allow researchers to capture impact related data and allow institutions to gainRead More →

We are pleased to announce a minor update to the REF Compliance Checker plugin with some valuable improvements to help institutions track and report on compliance. This includes: Item ID and Compliance columns have been added to the CSV report export to indicate the EPrint ID and a ‘Y’ or ‘N’ value to confirm whether or not the record is REF compliant The ‘REF Compliance – Exception’ reports now no longer display non-compliant records in green, incorrectly suggesting compliance. Both non-compliant and exceptions records are now displayed in red A fix to the automatic embargo length calculation when the embargo length was not an exact numberRead More →

The 11th International Conference of Repositories is fast approaching and once again our representatives from EPrints will be there. On Tuesday 14th June Les Carr, Director of EPrints, will be on the ‘Repository Rodeo‘ panel immediately after the opening keynote. Les will also be opening the EPrints Interest Group track in the afternoon discussing EPrints 3.4. Kelly Terrell, EPrints Open Education Lead, will immediately follow Les to talk about ‘Repositories for open education: a reflection and look forward for EPrints‘. We will also have a poster on display during the conference on the upcoming EPrints 3.4 release. As well as our team, there is also a greatRead More →

In response to user feedback we have been busy adding some further features to the REF Compliance Checker plugin which is now available to install. Improvements include: Integration with DatesDatesDates’ new “Published Online” (published_online) event type The item types that REF CC applies to is now configurable, defaulting to “Articles” and “Conference Items” The embargo length field is now calculated automatically A new message (with a new clock icon) is displayed for those records which are compliant but the document is currently not open access to indicate that it could be compliant if it is made open access by the given date A warning isRead More →

Building upon the success of the educational content sharing platform EdShare from the University of Southampton, we are pleased to bring you EPrints for Open Education on our latest EPrints core. Providing you with a flexible platform to support your engagement with open education practices. Whether for your school, project, collaborative network, institution or organisation and whether you intend to share your resources locally, regionally or world-wide our EdShare solution can be customised to meet your needs, allowing you to host, manage, share and collaborate on teaching and learning resources in one place. Over the past year EPrints HQ has been busy migrating the original EdShare developed from the EdSpace andRead More →

We are pleased to announce that EPrints 3.3.15 is now available to download. EPrints 3.3.15 is a minor release which features a number of enhancements and bug fixes, including: Added ability to select default import/export plugin New ‘dry run update’ feature in epadmin script telling you which tables and columns will be added to your SQL database Counter compliance of 304 responses Day-of-week and day-of-month logic bug fixed Improved rendering of possible DOI links Maria-db sorting issue on manage deposits screen fixed Preview window location updated after the prototype 1.71 update Additional checks to remove unnecessary log messages (cleaner log) Downloads available from files.eprints.org ThisRead More →